The Bull Market That Never Ends

LPL Financial analysts have a unique rationale for not worrying about the bull market’s age

“LONGEST BULL MARKET EVER,” say the strategists at LPL Financial, presumably all caps signify the joy that everyone in the finance industry feels from that term.

The big day is next Wednesday when the current bull market, which started on March 9, 2009, surpasses the previous record, set in the 1990s. There are always reasons to be worried, the strategists say, but age isn’t one of them. Their argument is unique though: “Given the current oldest woman in America is 113 and the oldest man is 112 (and smokes 12 cigars a day),...